Between 2000 and 2002, the Historical Archives of Ljubljana acquired a new fond called
Komunalno podjetje Žale Ljubljana. The fond is incomplete, for much of the material had been lost.
The collected material falls into two groups: the documents created by and connected with the
management of the company, and those created through the process of performing the tasks in the
competence of the undertakers' establishment or company. The latter include the original indexes of
the dead, mortuary lists of the deceased buried at Žale, and two mortuary registers with mortuary
lists and indexes. There are also two burial books and various lists of soldiers who died during the
WWI and WWII. Unfortunately, few older materials created by the management of the company have
survived. However, some larger fragments of the 1925 construction plans for a mortuary chapel at
the church of St. Cross, and the 1938 construction plans by the architect Emil Tomažič have been
preserved. Tomažič worked on Plečnik's All Saints Garden. Among more recent materials, the
extension of Žale, i.e. the building of Nove Žale is one ofthe most interesting.
On the 27th October 1913, Mestni pogrebni zavod, the predecessor of Javno podjetje Žale,
obtained a concession for performing burial services. Gradually, it bought up all the existing
undertakers' establishments in Ljubljana. After the WWII, Mestni pogrebni zavod was renamed to
Državno gospodarsko podjetje Žale, and in 1954 to Pogrebni zavod Žale. By 1961, it had taken over
the control of every minori Ljubljana cemetery and the establishment was renamed to Komunalno
podjetje Pogrebni zavod Žale Ljubljana. In 1974 the company underwent a reorganisation into
TOZD, i.e. a Basic Organisation of Associated Labour. It joined Komunalno podjetje Ljubljana. In
1990, after being excluded from the Komunalno podjetje Ljubljana, TOZD Žale was once again
organised as Javno podjetje Žale Ljubljana.